Chemical Engineering Seminar Series
Seminars are conducted in Livermore Center Room 101 from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m., unless otherwise noted.
Seminar Schedule
Spring 2013
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| 1/18 | Dr. Nabila Shamim | Instructor, Department of Chemical Engineering | Texas Tech University | Department Seminar Safety Seminar |
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| 1/28 | Dr. Haiqing Lin | Senior Research Scientist | Membrane Technology and Research, Inc. | Department Seminar Molecular Engineering of Polymeric Membrane Materials for H2 Purification and CO2 Capture |
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| 2/4 | Dr. Devin G. Barrett | Postdoctoral Researcher | Northwestern University | Department Seminar Viscoelastic and Covalently Cross-Linked Hydrogels Inspired by Mussels |
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| 2/6 | Dr. Wei Li | NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Department Seminar Microbead-Based Biomimetic Microenvironments Enhance Survival and Function of Insulin-Producing Cells This seminar will be held in the Lankford Lab - ECE 101. |
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| 2/8 | Dr. Holly J. Martin | Assistant Research Professor | Mississippi State University | Department Seminar Examining the Interaction of Chemistry and Mechanics on Surface Behavior: Applications of Corrosion Related to Biological and Non-Biological Materials |
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| 2/15 | Dr. Kelly Schultz | Postdoctoral Research Associate | University of Colorado at Boulder | Department Seminar Microrheological characterization for biological applications and soft material design |
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| 2/18 | Dr. Edwin L. Thomas | Dean, George R. Brown School of Engineering | Rice University | Soft Matter Seminar Periodic Polymers for Optical, Thermal and Mechanical Applications This seminar will be held in the Lankford Lab - ECE 101. |
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| 2/22 | Dr. Maria Santore | Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering | University of Massachusetts Amherst | Department Seminar Translating New Adhesive Mechanisms at Interfaces Containing Nano-Scale Features to the Manipulation of Biological Molecules and Cells |
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| 3/1 | Dr. William Hlavacek | Technical Staff Member, Theoretical Division | Los Alamos National Laboratories | Department Seminar Biomolecular Site Dynamics |
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| 3/6 | Dr. Elizabeth G. Loboa | Associate Professor and Director of the Cell Mechanics Laboratory | Joint Departments of Biomedical Engineering at UNC-Chapel Hill and NC State University and Materials Science and Engineering, NC State University | Department Seminar Functional Tissue Engineering: Converting Fat to Bone and Cartilage This seminar will be held at 5:30 p.m. in Livermore Center 101. |
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| 3/8 | Dr. Dennis Discher | Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | University of Pennsylvania | Department Seminar 'Self' versus 'Foreign' and Soft versus Stiff - Engineering approaches to mechanisms in survival and differentiation |
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| 3/13 | Dr. Osamu Urakawa | Associate Professor of Macromolecular Science | Osaka University | Department Seminar/Bradford Chair Seminar Structure and Dynamics of Hydrogen Bonding Polymers |
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| 4/5 | Dr. Balaji Narasimhan | Vlasta Klima Balloun Professor of Engineering | Iowa State University | Department Seminar Pathogen Mimicking Nanovaccine Platform Technology for Respiratory Infections: A New Paradigm This seminar will be held at 2:00 p.m. in Livermore Center 101. |
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| 4/12 | Dr. Christie Peebles | Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering | Colorado State University | Department Seminar Towards biofuel production in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803: Expanding the molecular biology toolbox |
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| 4/15 | Dr. Gareth H. McKinley | Associate Head for Research, Department of Chemical Engineering | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Soft Matter Seminar Microfluidic Rheometry of Complex Fluids This seminar will be held in the Lankford Lab - ECE 101. |
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| 4/26 | Dr. Darrell Irvine | Professor of Materials Science & Engineering and Biological Engineering | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Department Seminar Designing materials for next-generation vaccines and cancer immunotherapies |
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| 5/6 | Dr. Carol K. Hall | Camille Dreyfus Distinguished University Professor | North Carolina State University | Soft Matter Seminar Thermodynamic and Kinetic Origins of Alzheimer's and Related Diseases: a Chemical Engineer's Perspective This seminar will be held from 2:30-3:30 p.m. in the Lankford Lab - ECE 101. |
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